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Oracle of DelphiGary Hume & the Young British Artists (YBAs)
August 14th 2006 06:45
I posted on Ron Mueck a while back. Another of my favourite of the Young British Artists (YBAs) is Gary Hume (born 1962), who, of course, is a British artist and I think one of the most aesthetically progresiive of contemporary painters .
Gary Hume was born in Tenterden, Kent, and worked as an assistant film editor before giving it up in the 1980s to concentrate on art. He graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988 and was part of the Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst which brought together many of the artists subsequently promoted by Charles Saatchi as the Young British Artists.
His first group exhibitions were held that year at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London and in 'Freeze: Part II', at Surrey Docks, London.
Following his first solo show at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London (1989) he rapidly established an international reputation, exhibiting in numerous significant group exhibitions throughout the 1990s. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 and was winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997.
He represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women (again, these were gloss paint on aluminium).
In 2001 he was made a Royal Academician, to some surprise, given the Academy's perceived policy of admitting only older artists.
Gary Hume was born in Tenterden, Kent, and worked as an assistant film editor before giving it up in the 1980s to concentrate on art. He graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988 and was part of the Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst which brought together many of the artists subsequently promoted by Charles Saatchi as the Young British Artists.
His first group exhibitions were held that year at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London and in 'Freeze: Part II', at Surrey Docks, London.
'Snowman' (1996)
Following his first solo show at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London (1989) he rapidly established an international reputation, exhibiting in numerous significant group exhibitions throughout the 1990s. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 and was winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997.
He represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women (again, these were gloss paint on aluminium).
From Portraits 'Whistler' (1998)
In 2001 he was made a Royal Academician, to some surprise, given the Academy's perceived policy of admitting only older artists.
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